This week we
continue the explanation on how our ceramic beads in The Peruvian Bead Factory
are made, concentrating on the remaining four techniques:
·
Hand painted beads: The basic of this technique is that these beads are painted one by one
by hand, each color separately, using a brush. The stages here are different
than the other mentioned techniques (from last week posting) because the
painting stage is actually being done before glazing the beads, so after the
first firing of the clay, the beads are painted by hand with a brush, then
fired again in a low temperature just to assure the applied pigments are dry
and will not run over the bead when the glaze is applied, then a transparent
glaze is applied and the beads enter to the third and last firing cycle. You
could say they are fired only twice or twice and a half since the middle firing
is fast and in a relatively very low temperature.
Here are two links
to categories that are the essence of beads that are hand painted, the popular
Peruvian traditional beads: WWW.THEPBFACTORY.COM/hand_made_beads_geometric_type.html and the always popular sport beads: WWW.THEPBFACTORY.COM/sport_beads.html
·
Clay painted beads: A technique that is commonly applied with some of the Animal Shaped Beads, once the clay is fired the beads are being painted with paints that do
not require firing so the pieces dry in the air and the process is complete.
Models that are developed with this technique are: The
Medium bear, The
Gorilla and The
Chimpanzee.
·
Glazed painted beads: A technique that is very similar to the process of the hand painted
bead, only that two stages were combined into one, so instead of applying the
different pigments first and then apply the glaze, the application is of a
colored glaze which is a mixture of the pigment with a transparent glaze. The
technique is commonly used in our multi
color shaped beads and also in our animal shaped beads, here are three specific items that are developed using this technique:
VW Blue
Car, Asst.
color Flower and The
Medium size Zebra animal bead.
·
Combined painting beads: This technique combines two of the above mentioned techniques: the Hand
Painted Beads technique and the Clay Painted Beads technique. The
first stages of the process are the same as for the hand painted only that the
colored glazes are applied only on a few parts of the bead, then the beads are
fired and still has parts of exposed white clay which is then painted with
paints that dry in the air – ones that are not fired. There are many Animal
Shaped Beads that are developed with the
combined painting technique and here are two examples of items made this way:
So as you could
read from this note and last week’s post - making ceramic beads can be a pretty
complex process and there are many different ways to make them … each technique
has its uniqueness and some advantages as well as some flaws…
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e-store at: www.ThePeruvianBeadFactory.com, we look forward seeing you there or contact if you have any questions
about this post.
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